Cait Dyche

Across workshops, workrooms, and the wilds of the web, I design environments where knowledge becomes participatory, usable, and meaningful to the communities it serves.

I bring together research, content, and learning design to help people engage with ideas—and with each other—in ways that lead to real understanding and action.

I care deeply about clarity, connection, and building things that people can actually use.

And if we have a few laughs in the process, even better ;)

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels

SCHOLARLY WORKS

The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum • 4th October 2024

Broadening Participation in the Museum Experience Through Interactive Aesthetics

Journal of Radio & Audio Media • 25th November 2019

Playing to the crowd: Musicians, audiences, and the intimate work of connection

Visual Communication Quarterly • 1st April 2019

The U.S. Military Veteran in News Photographs: Representation and Stereotypes

Armed Forces & Society • 16th January 2019

Hero, Charity Case, and Victim: How U.S. News Media Frame Military Veterans on Twitter

UM Rackham Graduate School • 29th August 2022

Feeling Not-So-Great: the Digital Disillusion of American Exceptionalism - Dissertation Prospectus

mediacommons Field Guide • 1st April 2019

Never Far from Home: Transient Selfie-Takers and Digital Communities | Fieldguide

A little over a year ago while scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across a Buzzfeed News video about a new pop-up museum in San Francisco called the Color Factory. A quote from one of the exhibits’ creators stood out:

“I know people are wanting experiences more than things—I know I do. It was really important to us that each exhibit had three characteristics: that it was experiential; that it was conceptual, that there was something deeper behind it; and then, that it was very, like, ph...